Galaxy Thread - Post your images of galaxies

[Levina de Ruijter]

It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky, and is visible with binoculars.[9] It has an isophotal diameter at about 36.24 kiloparsecs (118,000 light-years). Its nickname of the Southern[a] Pinwheel derives from its resemblance to the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101).

In which direction would I have to point my binoculars to see it, Jeff?

 

[RichardB]

barred spiral galaxy

I never realised that galaxy are barred. (I actually had to look up what "barred" meant in this context.)

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

In which direction would I have to point my binoculars to see it, Jeff?

That all depends on the time of night and season of the year! I recommend downloading the free software call Stellarium! I used it for what is in the sky tonight from my home in New England at the same time I have set up quick links for the Canary Islands, Chile and Australia the 3 observatories I belong to with SLOOH. It will allow you to search on any object or even just browse around. Messier's Caldwell's and the entire NGC catalog of thousands of objects!

https://stellarium.org/

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

That all depends on the time of night and season of the year! I recommend downloading the free software call Stellarium! I used it for what is in the sky tonight from my home in New England at the same time I have set up quick links for the Canary Islands, Chile and Australia the 3 observatories I belong to with SLOOH. It will allow you to search on any object or even just browse around. Messier's Caldwell's and the entire NGC catalog of thousands of objects!

https://stellarium.org/

I know. I have it! And I still can't find things because I can't estimate the distances. In Stellarium something is like halfway up between north and north-east, but how far is that from where I am standing, how far up? How far to the right? I'm hopeless! But I will try again.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I know. I have it! And I still can't find things because I can't estimate the distances. In Stellarium something is like halfway up between north and north-east, but how far is that from where I am standing, how far up? How far to the right? I'm hopeless! But I will try again.

They have apps for the phones that you hold up and it shows the stars etc that you are pointing at such as Stellarium for iphone/android, Skyview free, SkySafari etc they actually work

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Messier 106

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

They have apps for the phones that you hold up and it shows the stars etc that you are pointing at such as Stellarium for iphone/android, Skyview free, SkySafari etc they actually work

I just purchased Skyview. It was just 2.99. I had no idea apps like that existed. Thanks for the heads up!

Messier 106

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Another great image, Jeff.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I just purchased Skyview. It was just 2.99. I had no idea apps like that existed. Thanks for the heads up!


Another great image, Jeff.

Glad to help!

The galaxy was taken with the S50, so easy to use!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Set up a plan on both my S30 and S50 as it was to be clear until 1 am. The clouds moved in at 11 so I only got 2 objects on S50 and 1 on the S30. I did find that if a S30 (and probably the S50) cannot see the object at the beginning of the imaging session, in my case the first object was behind a tree so no stars it highlighted it in the plan in red and waited for the next target, which it then captured. So it doesn't totally shut down but having many trees I have to make sure the target is out from behind them when I give the plan a start time.
Here is C32 the Whale and C7 galaxy with the S50 and the Leo Triplet with the S30

 

[JohnPD]

Here is C32 the Whale and C7 galaxy with the S50 and the Leo Triplet with the S30

Amazing images. And three galaxies in one frame? Wow.